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Papers by Gail Wallace
Sustainable social development, Jun 20, 2024
Choice Reviews Online, 2013
the public imagination. Poring over archives with a finetoothed comb Hern andez successfully pick... more the public imagination. Poring over archives with a finetoothed comb Hern andez successfully picks up many threads of evidence and shades of suggestion that point to Jewish influences on the constellation of theological thought and practice swirling around the transatlantic system of lore, politics, and devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe between Spain and Mexico. More broadly, Hern andez attempts to uncover the hidden lives of conversos and judaizantes and their possible influences on Catholic discourse and practice in the Americas. As Hern andez points out, the shared historical periods of the reconquista of Spain, the socalled ''discovery'' of the ''New World,'' and the rise of the Inquisition in each place point to promising lines of historical research concerning conversos and judaizantes-those who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although the archival documents that lend credence to the proposed existence of judaizantes after the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian peninsula in the late fifteenth century are sparse, Hern andez does well to interrogate both famous and forgotten texts to tease out tantalizing possibilities for Jewish influence on Catholic life in the Americas. However beguiling the potentials of these connections, the still-present gaps and sometimes speculative conclusions that Hern andez is forced to make because of the paucity of sources reminds readers that there is still vastly more to be discovered in the obscured histories of ''New Christians'' and their impact on the American religious milieu. While the connections between Jews and la Virgen are far from conclusive, Hern andez does well to stir the pot and to challenge other scholars to wrestle with existent sources to make visible the hidden histories of conversos and their most likely notable effect on the Spanish transatlantic world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This book will benefit scholars and graduate students who are interested in exploring avenues for further research regarding conversos and judaizantes in the Americas. Not a popular level book by any means, this type of advanced and nuanced archival research is meant for academic perusal.
Illness, Crisis & Loss, 2006
This article focuses on how impoverished racial and ethnic communities attribute meaning to place... more This article focuses on how impoverished racial and ethnic communities attribute meaning to place. I discuss theoretical ideas that support community organization along with practical ways of looking at community. Another aspect of this article involves the importance of a group's ties to place along with the constraints of a community's collective historical biography or "ghosts of place." The "ghosts of place" refer to those presences real or imagined that are socially constructed and part of a phenomenological sociology. The creation of racial and ethnic enclaves makes place an important dimension of community life and the shaping of future events. Community practitioners could approach these types of community issues through an ongoing sensitivity to the "ghosts of place" in culturally based interventions that acknowledge the hold that place attachment, its constraints, and its possibilities has on a cultural group's way of envisioning and living out its community health.
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, Jan 27, 2017
African American (AA) men battling multiple morbidities are tasked with managing the components o... more African American (AA) men battling multiple morbidities are tasked with managing the components of each condition and are at greater risk for adverse outcomes such as poor health-related quality of life (QOL), disability, and higher mortality rates. Baseline data for AA men from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging were utilized. Factor analysis was used to categorize medical conditions and create factor scores. Covariate-adjusted regression models assessed the relationships between categories of conditions and physical and mental health-related QOL as assessed by the SF-12. The mean age of the sample of 247 AA men was 75.36 years and 49% lived in rural areas. Medical conditions fit into three factors: metabolic syndrome, kidney failure and neurological complications, and COPD and heart disease. Covariate-adjusted models revealed that low education, higher levels of income difficulty, and higher scores on metabolic syndrome and COPD and heart disease factors were a...
Sociological Perspectives, 2013
This study examined community characteristics as predictors of parenting quality among Affican-Am... more This study examined community characteristics as predictors of parenting quality among Affican-American mothers. Residential stability and social capital are defined as positive features of community social organization, especially in areas with high concentrations of poor, single, African-American mothers with children. In residentially stable communities, members are able to form social ties to community, and this helps community members build social resources in the form of social capital. Among the 759 African-American mothers who participated in the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS), there was a positive and direct relationship from perceptions of community social capital and organizational group participation to parenting quality. Personal outlook did not mediate the relationship between any of the social capital study variables (residential stability, perceptions of social capital, and organizational group participation) and parenting quality. To the contrary, personal outlook was significantly related to parenting quality among these mothers'net effect of the main study variables and an extensive set of community-and individual-level social and demographic control variables.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2006
Neighborhoods with poor-quality housing, few resources, and unsafe conditions impose stress, whic... more Neighborhoods with poor-quality housing, few resources, and unsafe conditions impose stress, which can lead to depression. The stress imposed by adverse neighborhoods increases depression above and beyond the effects of the individual's own personal stressors, such as poverty and negative events within the family or workplace. Furthermore, adverse neighborhoods appear to intensify the harmful impact of personal stressors and interfere with the formation of bonds between people, again increasing risk for depression. Neighborhoods do not affect all people in the same way. People with different personality characteristics adjust in different ways to challenging neighborhoods. As a field, psychology should pay more attention to the impact of contextual factors such as neighborhoods. Neighborhood-level mental health problems should be addressed at the neighborhood level. Public housing policies that contribute to the concentration of poverty should be avoided and research should be c...
This study examines the health-related content of Black megachurch websites in the southeastern U... more This study examines the health-related content of Black megachurch websites in the southeastern United States. Data collection resulted in the identification of qualitative themes and frequencies of references to general health, specific health conditions, and corresponding general and specific health ministries. The most salient qualitative themes included holistic definitions of health, attention to racial health disparities, belief in divine health and protection from illness, emphasis on individual health responsibility, and belief in a religion-health connection. Nearly all websites referred to general health, and 74% mentioned a general health ministry. The most frequent references to specific health conditions included addiction, cancer, and HIV/AIDS, roughly corresponding to the top mentioned specific health ministries. This study provides baseline data on Black megachurch efforts to convey health information to their virtual congregations and communities. Findings support recent initiatives to involve megachurches in the provision of health messages within cultural frames to reach African Americans.
Sustainable social development, Jun 20, 2024
Choice Reviews Online, 2013
the public imagination. Poring over archives with a finetoothed comb Hern andez successfully pick... more the public imagination. Poring over archives with a finetoothed comb Hern andez successfully picks up many threads of evidence and shades of suggestion that point to Jewish influences on the constellation of theological thought and practice swirling around the transatlantic system of lore, politics, and devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe between Spain and Mexico. More broadly, Hern andez attempts to uncover the hidden lives of conversos and judaizantes and their possible influences on Catholic discourse and practice in the Americas. As Hern andez points out, the shared historical periods of the reconquista of Spain, the socalled ''discovery'' of the ''New World,'' and the rise of the Inquisition in each place point to promising lines of historical research concerning conversos and judaizantes-those who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although the archival documents that lend credence to the proposed existence of judaizantes after the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian peninsula in the late fifteenth century are sparse, Hern andez does well to interrogate both famous and forgotten texts to tease out tantalizing possibilities for Jewish influence on Catholic life in the Americas. However beguiling the potentials of these connections, the still-present gaps and sometimes speculative conclusions that Hern andez is forced to make because of the paucity of sources reminds readers that there is still vastly more to be discovered in the obscured histories of ''New Christians'' and their impact on the American religious milieu. While the connections between Jews and la Virgen are far from conclusive, Hern andez does well to stir the pot and to challenge other scholars to wrestle with existent sources to make visible the hidden histories of conversos and their most likely notable effect on the Spanish transatlantic world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This book will benefit scholars and graduate students who are interested in exploring avenues for further research regarding conversos and judaizantes in the Americas. Not a popular level book by any means, this type of advanced and nuanced archival research is meant for academic perusal.
Illness, Crisis & Loss, 2006
This article focuses on how impoverished racial and ethnic communities attribute meaning to place... more This article focuses on how impoverished racial and ethnic communities attribute meaning to place. I discuss theoretical ideas that support community organization along with practical ways of looking at community. Another aspect of this article involves the importance of a group's ties to place along with the constraints of a community's collective historical biography or "ghosts of place." The "ghosts of place" refer to those presences real or imagined that are socially constructed and part of a phenomenological sociology. The creation of racial and ethnic enclaves makes place an important dimension of community life and the shaping of future events. Community practitioners could approach these types of community issues through an ongoing sensitivity to the "ghosts of place" in culturally based interventions that acknowledge the hold that place attachment, its constraints, and its possibilities has on a cultural group's way of envisioning and living out its community health.
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, Jan 27, 2017
African American (AA) men battling multiple morbidities are tasked with managing the components o... more African American (AA) men battling multiple morbidities are tasked with managing the components of each condition and are at greater risk for adverse outcomes such as poor health-related quality of life (QOL), disability, and higher mortality rates. Baseline data for AA men from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging were utilized. Factor analysis was used to categorize medical conditions and create factor scores. Covariate-adjusted regression models assessed the relationships between categories of conditions and physical and mental health-related QOL as assessed by the SF-12. The mean age of the sample of 247 AA men was 75.36 years and 49% lived in rural areas. Medical conditions fit into three factors: metabolic syndrome, kidney failure and neurological complications, and COPD and heart disease. Covariate-adjusted models revealed that low education, higher levels of income difficulty, and higher scores on metabolic syndrome and COPD and heart disease factors were a...
Sociological Perspectives, 2013
This study examined community characteristics as predictors of parenting quality among Affican-Am... more This study examined community characteristics as predictors of parenting quality among Affican-American mothers. Residential stability and social capital are defined as positive features of community social organization, especially in areas with high concentrations of poor, single, African-American mothers with children. In residentially stable communities, members are able to form social ties to community, and this helps community members build social resources in the form of social capital. Among the 759 African-American mothers who participated in the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS), there was a positive and direct relationship from perceptions of community social capital and organizational group participation to parenting quality. Personal outlook did not mediate the relationship between any of the social capital study variables (residential stability, perceptions of social capital, and organizational group participation) and parenting quality. To the contrary, personal outlook was significantly related to parenting quality among these mothers'net effect of the main study variables and an extensive set of community-and individual-level social and demographic control variables.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2006
Neighborhoods with poor-quality housing, few resources, and unsafe conditions impose stress, whic... more Neighborhoods with poor-quality housing, few resources, and unsafe conditions impose stress, which can lead to depression. The stress imposed by adverse neighborhoods increases depression above and beyond the effects of the individual's own personal stressors, such as poverty and negative events within the family or workplace. Furthermore, adverse neighborhoods appear to intensify the harmful impact of personal stressors and interfere with the formation of bonds between people, again increasing risk for depression. Neighborhoods do not affect all people in the same way. People with different personality characteristics adjust in different ways to challenging neighborhoods. As a field, psychology should pay more attention to the impact of contextual factors such as neighborhoods. Neighborhood-level mental health problems should be addressed at the neighborhood level. Public housing policies that contribute to the concentration of poverty should be avoided and research should be c...
This study examines the health-related content of Black megachurch websites in the southeastern U... more This study examines the health-related content of Black megachurch websites in the southeastern United States. Data collection resulted in the identification of qualitative themes and frequencies of references to general health, specific health conditions, and corresponding general and specific health ministries. The most salient qualitative themes included holistic definitions of health, attention to racial health disparities, belief in divine health and protection from illness, emphasis on individual health responsibility, and belief in a religion-health connection. Nearly all websites referred to general health, and 74% mentioned a general health ministry. The most frequent references to specific health conditions included addiction, cancer, and HIV/AIDS, roughly corresponding to the top mentioned specific health ministries. This study provides baseline data on Black megachurch efforts to convey health information to their virtual congregations and communities. Findings support recent initiatives to involve megachurches in the provision of health messages within cultural frames to reach African Americans.